Acronyms
AATSR
Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
ADEOS
Advanced Earth Observing Satellite
AGW
Atmospheric Gravity Waves
AIS
Automatic Identification System
ALOS
Advanced Land Observing Satellite
AMESD
African Monitoring of the Environment for Sustainable Development
AMI
Active Microwave Instrument
AMSR-E
Advanced Scanning Microwave Radiometer
AMSSA
African Maritime Safety and Security Agency
AMSU-A
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
AOD
Aerosol Optical Depth
AOML
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
AOP
Apparent Optical Properties
ASAR
Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar
ASCAT
Advanced Scatterometer
ASTER
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission Reflection Radiometer
ATCOR
Atmospheric & Topographic Correction (model)
ATCOR2
Atmospheric Correction for Flat Terrain (model)
ATI
Along-Track Interferometry
AVHRR
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
AVISO
Archiving, Validation and Interpretation of Satellite Oceanographic
(data center, of France)
BC
Before Christ
BMBF
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of
Education and Research, Germany)
BPAC
Bright Pixel Atmospheric Correction (algorithm)
BT
Brightness Temperature
CASI
Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager
CDOM
Coloured Dissolved Organic Material
CDOP
(empirical function relating the) C-band Doppler shift (to the wind
field)
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